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Farmer shoots Rottweiler after sheep killed in Carlisle field

A farmer shot a dog dead after two Rottweilers killed one of his sheep in a field in Carlisle.

When police arrived in the field, at the back of Ellesmere Way, Morton, they saw the two Rottweilers lying next to the body of the sheep.

Carlisle magistrates heard yesterday how the farmer arrived but was unable to control them and shot one. The other escaped into Wigton Road, dodging traffic, before it ran into Castlerigg Drive and the garden of its owner.

Have your say

The farmer certainly got a good deal, didn't he, laughing all the way to the bank!

Current price of these sheep is around 60 pound, he got over 100 pounds - pretty good deal that.

Posted by PaulM on
5 October 2009 at 10:23

'Rik Green' and 'Gaz' you obviously don't have a clue what your talking about. Having owned dogs all my life i agree with other people the breed of the dog is irrelevant. Any dog has the potential to be vicious from the smallest to the largest of breeds. I can understand why the farmer shot the dog as it has killed his livestock. But don't condemn the breed. Its the useless owners!